84 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 
TaBLe 56.—Interest rates paid in 1922 on the mortgages on the sugar-beet farms 
wnvestigated +n the United States 
Aras 
United States. ... 
MACIEEIIL. cn mmm smn mmm mmm mm ww 
Ohio. ...... .. # Whew WE 
Nebraska. ......- Frm ies 
Colorado. ... 
Average in- 
terest rates 
paid on 
farm mort- 
gages 
Per cent 
17.14 
6. 3¢ 
71 
Areas 
Utah. eee 
[6 FY + Uo JSON 
wyoming. oo... JR 
Zontana. «ccececaco——nan 
Jalifornis 
Average in- 
terest rates 
paid on 
farm mort- 
gages 
Per cent 
7. 501 
7. 80 
7.76 
7.43 
7. 46 
1 Weighted on the basis of the total acreage of sugar beets harvested in the 9 States investigated. 
TABLE 57.—Returns for capital, management, and labor other than contract and 
tractor operations 
SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1921, 
1922, AND 1923 
Amount by 
which the 
returns 
rom sugar 
beets ex- 
ceed the 
Josts of pro- 
Juction, ex: 
clusive of 
capital 
‘harges, the 
costs of all 
direct labor 
sn machine 
operations, 
and all in- 
direct labor 
costs 
Gross re- 
turns for 
apital and 
manage- 
ment as ex- 
pressed in 
yercentages 
of total 
capital 1 
smployed 
in sugar- 
beet pro- 
duction 
Value of 
and and 
other 
rgDital 
Hours of 
abor other 
than con- 
tract and 
tractor 
operation 
ArOSs re- 
turns for 
bor,} capi 
tal, and 
manage- 
ment 
TOSS re- 
surns for 
bor ! and 
manage- 
ment 
Area and year 
2) 
(3) 
4) 
(5) 
(8) 
6) 
Cents per 
hour of la- 
hor OT ThE- 
shine oper- 
ations and 
indireet 
lar 
Cents per 
hour of la- 
hor ON Ma- 
thine oper- 
ations and 
indirect 
labor 
4 36.€ 
-2.7 
46.1 
76.2 
Per cent 
$6.81 
—-. 7) 
9.32 
16.67 
1.91 
-7.11 
5.16 
12. 80: 
37.9 6.41 
5 =-13.1 —1,79 
Ys 30.0 5.21 
108.5 81.6 . 14.39 
1 Labor other than contract labor and the labor of operating the tractors. It is therefore the labor on ma- 
shine operations and the indirect labor. 
1 See Table 51 and footnotes to Tables 49 and 50. . 
3 These figures were obtained by dividing those in column 4 by those in column 3. 
« These figures were obtained by subtracting from those in column 4 the capital charges per acre of beets 
harvested as shown in Table 53, and dividing the result by the hours per acre as shown in column 3. . 
§ These figures were obtained by subtracting from those in column 4 the direct labor costs on machine 
operations and indirect labor costs per acre, as shown in Table 17, and dividing the result by the walue of 
land and other capital per acre, as shown in column 2. 
Hours per 
acre